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Apologies for the hiatus of posts on the blog… one minute it was December 2011 then suddenly through a mist of mobile stats and detection work we find ourselves in May 2012 without a single blog post having been done in the interim! We will try hard not to let that happen again… 😉

Microsoft’s Bing overtook Yahoo! as the number two search engine in the United States and worldwide on Thursday (4th June) according to our StatCounter Global Stats data. Bing grabbed market share from Google.

“It remains to be seen if Bing falls away after the initial novelty and promotion but at first sight it looks like Microsoft is on to a winner,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “Steve Ballmer is quoted as saying that he wanted Microsoft to become the second biggest search engine within five years. Following the breakdown in talks to acquire Yahoo! at a cost of $40bn it looks as if he may have just achieved that with Bing much sooner and a lot cheaper than anticipated.”

Our analysis finds that in the US Bing leapfrogged Yahoo to take second place on 16.28%. Yahoo! has 10.22%. Google still commands the US search engine market with 71.47%.

UPDATE 11 June 2009:
While Bing has fallen back to third place behind Google and Yahoo! it is winning market share for Microsoft against its two main rivals in the US and worldwide according to our latest analysis.

We analyzed search engine market share two weeks before and after the formal launch of Bing on May 28th (14th May to the 27th May and the 28th May to 10th June). For the US market it found:
Google decreased from 78.68% to 77.94% (-0.74%)
Yahoo decreased from 11.46% to 10.76% (-0.7%)
Microsoft (Bing, MSN Search and Live Search) increased from 7.4% to 9% (+1.6%)
(See here and here)

“It is too early to say what the long term result will be but this is a creditable performance by Bing,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO StatCounter. “It remains to be seen what happens to Bing after user curiosity and the reported $100m advertising budget runs out.”

Worldwide, comparing the two weeks before and after the Bing launch, StatCounter reports a similar trend with Microsoft taking market share.
Google decreased from 89.81% to 89.69% (-0.12%)
Yahoo decreased from 5.34% to 5.1% (-0.24%)
Microsoft (Bing, MSN Search and Live Search) increased from 3.08% to 3.5% (+0.42%)
(See here and here)

Mozilla Firefox 3 overtook Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 for the first time in February in the Internet Browser Wars according to monthly data from StatCounter Global Stats – our new free analysis tool.

Internet Explorer 7 continues to lead globally with 41% market share. However, Firefox 3 is now in second place with 24% replacing IE 6.

“Since its launch less than a year ago, Firefox 3 has attained nearly one quarter of the global market,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO and founder, StatCounter. “IE 7 is consistently holding about 40% of the global market but IE 6 has fallen from 28% in July last to 22% in February this year.”**

The growth in usage of Firefox 3 can be partly attributed to users upgrading to the new version – Firefox 2 market share has fallen from 16% to 3% in the period.

Microsoft’s combined IE 7 and IE 6 market share has fallen from 68% in July last year to 63% now. IE 8 has gained a toehold in the market of just over 1%. Firefox 3 and 2 has grown from 25% in July last to 27% in February 2009.

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“This is probably the most comprehensive global web analysis you can get and certainly for free,” commented former Gartner senior executive, Oisin Byrne who now heads independent tech research company, iReach. “StatCounter is shaking up the web research market by being able to provide such comprehensive statistics at no cost to users.”

There is no charge for use of the data or charts but users must reference StatCounter as the source.

As many of you requested, here are updated browser usage stats. We’ve broken the stats down into Global, US and UK figures. These stats are based on a total sample for the period of over 450 million page views globally. All daily stats are based on the relevant GMT 24 hour periods.

Global Stats – Browser Usage

IE

Firefox

Safari

Chrome

Other

Sep 01

66.92%

25.26%

2.99%

n/a

4.84%

change

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–

–

–

–

Sep 02*

67.58%

24.36%

2.91%

n/a

5.06%

change

0.66%

(0.90%)

(0.08%)

n/a

0.22%

Sep 03

67.81%

23.54%

2.70%

1.11%

4.87%

change

0.23%

(0.82%)

(0.21%)

1.11%

(0.19%)

Sep 04

68.59%

23.20%

2.56%

1.16%

4.51%

change

0.78%

(0.34%)

(0.14%)

0.05%

(0.36%)

Sep 05

68.44%

23.22%

2.56%

1.12%

4.66%

change

(0.15%)

0.02%

0.00%

(0.04%)

0.15%

Sep 06

65.46%

25.43%

2.81%

1.16%

5.14%

change

(2.98%)

2.21%

0.25%

0.04%

0.48%

Sep 07

63.15%

26.69%

3.02%

1.18%

5.96%

change

(2.31%)

1.26%

0.21%

0.02%

0.82%

Sep 08

65.89%

24.46%

2.69%

1.10%

5.86%

change

2.74%

(2.23%)

(0.33%)

(0.08%)

(0.10%)

Sep 09

66.27%

24.17%

2.66%

1.07%

5.83%

change

0.38%

(0.29%)

(0.03%)

(0.03%)

(0.03%)

Sep 10

66.28%

24.31%

2.62%

1.05%

5.75%

change

0.01%

0.14%

(0.04%)

(0.02%)

(0.08%)

Sep 11

66.67%

23.95%

2.59%

1.02%

5.77%

change

0.39%

(0.36%)

(0.03%)

(0.03%)

0.02%

Total Change

(0.25%)

(1.31%)

(0.40%)

1.02%

0.93%

*The Chrome browser was launched late in the day GMT time on Sept 2nd so the first full day of tracking for Chrome is Sept 3rd.